Rahul, Nandita in Sivan's English flick

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sheetal

@sheetald

Rocker

Posted: 20 years ago

My lips are sealed:
Rahul Bose

Santosh Sivan began shooting yesterday on an English film titled Kerala (working title) — a film starring Rahul Bose, Nandita Das and two British actors.

Sivan is also the cinematographer of the film. The film is being jointly produced by Los Angeles-based Echo Lake Productions, Adirondack Pictures of New York and Santosh Sivan Productions.

Location shoots

Kerala is set in the pre-1950 period and contains lots of passion and conflict. Some actors from the Malyalam industry will also make the grade, and there will be a dialogues in Malyalam too.

According to sources, "The film will be entirely shot in Munnar and it was difficult to convince the British actors to shoot there."

Backwaters calling: Nandita Das

Vows of secrecy

We called Nandita Das, but she was busy. "I am in a meeting in Cochin. I can't talk to you right now," she said hurriedly. Rahul Bose was forthcoming.

He said, "Yes, I will be working with Nandita Das. But I am sorry that I can't tell you about my character in the film, except for the fact that it's a pivotal one. I have been sworn to secrecy and I can't break anybody's trust."